Author: Saul Dubow
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: south, africa, sensibility, science, knowledge, commonwealth
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-12-07
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0199296634
ISBN-13: 9780199296637

A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowledge, conceived of as a universal, modernizing force, and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines. By means of detailed analysis of colonial cultures, literary and scientific institutions, and expert historical thinking about South Africa and its peoples, it demonstrates the ways in which the cultivation of kno

Authors:Saul Dubow, Alan Jeeves,
Publisher: Double Storey
Keywords: 1940s, africa, south
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1770130012
ISBN-13: 9781770130012

The 1940s was a turbulent period in the history of South Africa. It opened with parliament’s bitterly contested decision to enter the war, was rocked by political turmoil, and ended with a bang, as well as a whimper, as the National Party captured political power in 1948. Most see it as a decade that led inexorably towards apartheid but the coming of Afrikaner nationalism was only one of several competing visions of the future. The decade was in fact marked by a general sense of expectancy and optimism that the end of the war would usher in a brave new world. New worlds of possibilities

Author: Wendy DuBow
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: conversations, series, literary, nin, anaãƒâ¯s
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 1994-12-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0878057196
ISBN-13: 9780878057191

Authors:Saul D. Hoffman, Saul D. Hoffman, Rebecca A. Maynard
Publisher: Urban Institute Press
Keywords: kids, teen, pregnancy, consequences, costs, having, economic, social
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-10-22
List price: $34.50
ISBN-10: 0877667454
ISBN-13: 9780877667452

Teen childbearing in the United States has been declining since 1991, yet we consistently have the highest teen birth rates in the industrialized world. In 1997, Kids Having Kids was the first comprehensive effort to identify the consequences of teen childbearing for the mothers, the fathers, the children, and our society. Rather than simply comparing teen mothers with their childless counterparts, the assembled researchers achieved a new methodological sophistication, seeking to isolate the birth itself from the mother s circumstances and thus discover its true costs. This updated second edit

Author: A. Saul
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: mechanics, applications, fluid, management, flood, floods
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 1992-12-31
List price: $485.00
ISBN-10: 0792320786
ISBN-13: 9780792320784

In recent years there have been a number of catastrophic floods that have resulted in a tragic loss of life. These natural disasters highlight the need to further understand the occurrence phenomena, to improve forecasting techniques, and to develop procedures and contingency plans to minimise the flood impact. This volume contains contributions from the 3rd International Conference on Floods and Flood Management held in Florence in November 1992. The volume is timely and provides an important overview for engineers, scientists, managers and researchers of the latest developments in

Author: Saul Landau
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: paths, twenty, first, century, trend, reverse, america, consumers, replaced, citizens, business
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2004-06-15
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0415944694
ISBN-13: 9780415944694

When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new generation of Americans, fighting the advance of the shopping malls and the desolation they leave behind. Written by one of the most insightful critics of American commercialism, The Business of America probes the forces that have transformed citizens into consumers eager to take as much as they can from the planet. From on-line shopping to spectator sports to the cash-and-carry ethos of political campaigns, Saul La

Author: Saul Bellow
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Keywords: classics, penguin, march, augie, adventures
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2006-10-03
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143039571
ISBN-13: 9780143039570

As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this gem by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Bold, expansive, and keenly humorous, The Adventures of Augie March blends street language with literary elegance to tell the story of a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Depression. A "born recruit," Augie makes himself available for hire by plungers, schemers, risk takers, and operators, compiling a record of choices that is?to say the least? eccentric.